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Friday, March 15, 2013

Updated Championship Week Predictions

Well,
the Hoosiers avenged that mid-season loss to Illinois with a commanding
victory, with Victor
Oladipo providing the exclamation mark.
To quote Clark Kellogg, Oladipo is "like a baby's bottom, smooth
and sometimes explosive." Up
tomorrow in the semis are the Badgers, who have beaten the Hoosiers eleven
straight times. It would seem to me that
it is time for their uppance to come.

Two
AP Top 5 teams went down. Big East
1-seed and #5 Georgetown lost to Syracuse, as at least one person writing this
sentence predicted. ACC 2-seed and #2
Duke was taken down by Maryland, probably costing the Blue Devils a 1-seed in
the NCAA Tournament. Fear the Turtle.

I
was also happy to see Kentucky get rolled by Vanderbilt. Do the right thing, NCAA Tournament Selection
Committee, and send Calipari to the NIT.

Tomorrow,
there are 13 NCAA Tournament bids up for grabs, with games spanning 12+ hours.

This
will probably be my last update before Selection Sunday, as I will likely be in
no condition tomorrow to compose sentences or track anything. Perhaps I will be able to string something together
Sunday morning.

Here
is who has already clinched an automatic berth, as well as my predictions for
the remaining conference tournaments.
(Note: The Great West Conference
holds a tournament, but does not receive an automatic bid to the NCAA
tournament, so I am not including it here.)

Already
clinched automatic berths (I added in parentheses the number of NCAA tournament
appearances, including the bid just clinched):